DOD FX25 with the sensitivity set low for a Bill Laswel impression, plus a BBE Opto-Stomp, and an Ibanez MOStortion set just under shy of dirt.
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What's on for your "Clean" sound
- Thread starter TaySte_2000
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ampeg octave on 80% of the time, as well as the Ego Boost, going into dbx 160A rack. pretty content with that
if by clean you mean basic then i can play this game.
with the sterling my basic/clean tone is a blend of gk preamp (boost at 3 o'clock) with sansamp rpm dialed in for dirty svt type tone or a barber ltd sr - they play together equally well.
with the spector it's just straight into the gk with boost cranked.
the schecter found it's home using a dod250 fulltime.
no matter the bass i split the signal and have a di from the bass blended with the effected tone at foh or the studio console.
with the sterling my basic/clean tone is a blend of gk preamp (boost at 3 o'clock) with sansamp rpm dialed in for dirty svt type tone or a barber ltd sr - they play together equally well.
with the spector it's just straight into the gk with boost cranked.
the schecter found it's home using a dod250 fulltime.
no matter the bass i split the signal and have a di from the bass blended with the effected tone at foh or the studio console.
As of Sunday and MXR Classic Distortion with the gain low the output at noon and the tone at about 2' o clock
I've heard this said a lot, but I think there's a bit of a misconception.
I'm very familiar with the CS-3 - inside and out (Bongo sent me a schematic, and I was obscessed since then). Realize that on a stock CS, unity gain is achieved at about 10:00 on the 'sustain' knob, along with noon on the 'level' (they interact, of course, but this 12:00/10:00 setting is a pretty reasonable neutral or baseline setting, with light/medium limiting on a passive bass; tone is neutral at about noon, and something like 1:30 on the attack control gets you pretty tight gain control, without getting blatent intermod distortion, as you would clockwise from there). The way a CS works is that the detector/VCA has a fixed threshold, and as you advance the sustain control clockwise (from 10:00 in this example), you're just 'driving it harder', and increasing gain FAST!
So my point is that by the time you get to noon on the sustain knob, you've really added a lot of gain! I most often run the sustain control at 1:00 or so; this is TONS of compression, and TONS of GAIN (I should measure it one of these days). Enough gain to amplify existing noise, for one thing - but I think it does a pretty quiet job up there, considering all the gain I've induced.
I have more noise trouble, for sure, from my Aphex Bass Xciter.
I mean.. as one compares compressor to compressor - let's say CS-3 to a Funch Factory - here's where a rather unfair comparison comes in: you can say 'the PF is quieter than the CS-3' - but dang - you can hardly 'dial-back' a CS-3 far enough to make it compress as little as a PFactory does cranked up!
See what I mean?
Joe
The only always on pedal for me is a BOSS LMB-1. I'm thinking about getting a better compressor as opposed to the limiter.
I used to have an SA BDDI Prog and a Sonic Stomp that were always on. Those have since been traded/sold.
My rackmount preamp (Yamaha PB-1) sounds great so I'm not needing a whole lot of "tonal improvement".
I used to have an SA BDDI Prog and a Sonic Stomp that were always on. Those have since been traded/sold.
My rackmount preamp (Yamaha PB-1) sounds great so I'm not needing a whole lot of "tonal improvement".
